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Man Builds Automated Sam Altman Annoyance Machine, Begs Internet Not to Abuse It

By Tom Hawking, Gizmodo

Man Builds Automated Sam Altman Annoyance Machine, Begs Internet Not to Abuse It

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One of the few consolations of the AI “boom” has been the swath it’s cut through the army of smug assholes who spent much of the 2010s telling everyone else to “learn to code.” But learning to code is good—not because it’ll get you a job, because nothing will get you a job in 2026, but because if nothing else, it lets you do useful things like, oh, I don’t know, writing a script that can send an annoying email to Sam Altman every day reporting exactly how much RAM your computer has available. If you missed it, Altman told the Cheeky Pint podcast last month, while discussing people running AI models on their own computers, that “from a global allocation perspective… it’s quite terrible to have everybody have a…

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